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THIS MAY CERTIFY THAT 



having compliecl ivifh tlie conditions of mufric- 
ulation, is admitted a meniljei' of the Univer- 
sity of Vermont and State Agricultural College. 

Pres't. 

Burlington, 18 



By trauBt'at 
MAR 3 <»t6 



CHAPTEK I. 



OF THE FACULTY AND THEIR DUTIES. 



Section 1. The government and control of the students 
shall be vested in the President, Professors, and other Instruc- 
tors, who shall be styled the Faculty of the University. It shall 
be their duty to devote themselves earnestly to the work of their 
several departments and to allow no other pursuit to interfere 
therewith ; to instruct the students in the several branches of 
learning taught in this University ; to encourage them in the ac- 
quisition of knowledge, and the practice of virtue : to repress all 
practices and customs at variance with the objects of the Institu- 
tion : to counsel and warn the offending-: and faithfully and im- 
partially to administer the laws established by the Corporation. 
And for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this sec- 
tion, each Instructor shall consider himself an officer of disci- 
pline as well as of instruction, charged with the special supervi- 
sion of his own classes. He shall note every instance of irreg- 
ularity in attendance, or of violation of the laws, and take 
measures at once to correct it. If his own efforts are unsuccess- 
ful, he shall report the case to the President. 

Sect 2. The Faculty shall hold stated meetings for business 
and the President may convene special ones, at all of which a 
majority of the Faculty shall constitute a quorum. The President 
shall preside, and in his absence the senior officer present. The 
presiding officer may always vote, and shall give a casting vote 
when otherwise a question Avould be undecided. The Faculty 
shall keep a book for recording their votes, which shall be laid 
before the Corporation whenever it is called for. 



Sect. 3. The President and a Standing Committee of the 
Faculty shall be specially charged with the execution of the laws 
of the University. The President shall have authority in emer- 
gencies to adopt and execute at his discretion such measures, not 
inconsistent with the charter and regulations of the University, 
as he may judge the necessities of the case require. He shall 
matriculate students who are candidates for degrees, and shall 
grant ])ermission to others to take a single study or a select 
course, as the Faculty shall direct. 

He shall keep a special book, in which shall be registered the 
name and age of each student, with the name and residence of his 
parent or guardian, the time when he enters the University, and 
the time and circumstances of his leaving the same, and such oc- 
casional notices of his conduct and attainments while connected 
with the University as at any time may be useful in forming a 
correct oi)inion of his merit or demerit as a man and as a scholar. 
This register shall be open to the inspection of the members of 
the Corporation, and also of the parents and guardians of the 
students so far as such record may relate to the conduct of their 
respective children or wards. 

In the absence of the President the senior member of the 
Faculty present shall grant leave of absence and perform such du- 
ties belonging to the President's ofhce as are imperative and ad- 
mit of no delay. 

Sect. 4. The Faculty shall make such rules for their own 
guidance in the discharge of their duties as shall best promote 
their efficiency and success as instructors and officers. 

Sect. 5. The Presidant shall report annually to the Corpo- 
ration whatever changes in the general course and methods of 
instruction in the University may have been adopted, and what- 
ever is deserving of notice in the internal economy of the Institu- 
tion, and especially in the conduct and habits of the students, ancj 



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shall recommend such measures as the general interests of the 
University nia}^ seem to him to require. 

Sect. 6. At such times as the President shall direct, the In- 
structors shall present to him such reports as are necessary to aid 
him in his annual report to the Corporation. 

CHAPTER II. 

OF ADMISSION, ATTENDANCE, STUDIES AND EXAMINATIONS. 

Section 1. Every person proposing to become a student in 
this University shall, in order to his admission, produce satisfac ■ 
tory testimonials of good moral character, be at least fifteen years 
of age, and be prepared to sustain an approved examination in 
subjects prescribed by the Faculty and specified in the Annual 
Catalogue. [For conditions of admission by certificate, see An- 
nual Catalogue.] For admission to an advanced class, a corres 
ponding increase of age shall be required, and the applicant shall 
be prepared to sustain an examination in the studies that have 
been pursued by such class, or their equivalent. Persons not 
candidates for a degree, may be permitted to pursue a partial 
course of study at the discretion of the Facult}^ 

Sect. 2. Every person, on joining the University, shall be 
furnished by the President with a copy of the laws, and his uin-e- 
served promise to obey the same and such other laws and regula- 
tions as may from time to time be enacted, shall be a condition of 
his matriculation. [For other conditions see Chap. YIIL, Sect. 1.] 

In case the student be a minor, the President shall transmit 
a copy of the Laws by mail to his parent or guardian. 

Sect. 3. College exercises shall begin on the morning of the 
first day of each term. Students shall be accountable for ab- 
sences from that date. 



Sect. 4. No student may leave town in term time without 
permission in writino- from the President, or, in his absence, from 
the senior member of the Faculty in Burlington. When from 
any reason a student has failed to obtain such leave, he shall re- 
port to the President immediately on his return. 

Sect. 5. Of absences and tardinesses. 

1. Absences shall not be excused by an Instructor on any 
of the following grounds : (1) not hearing the bell ; (2) lateness 
of breakfast : (3) calls of or upon friends : (4) not being prepared 
to recite ; (5) attending to work in another department : (6) 
slight indisposition ; (7) business, unless plainly, in the judgment 
of the Instructor, of an urgent character. 

2. Excuses must be rendered at the close of the first exer- 
cise at w^hich the delinquent meets the Instructor to whom his 
excuse is due. Written excuses may be required by any Instruc- 
tor at his discretion. 

3. A tardiness at prayers shall be counted as an absence, 
and two unexcused tardinesses at any other college exercise shall 
be counted as one unexcused absence. 

4. Recitations lost by absence must be made up within a 
week, unless special leave be granted for a longer time ; but when 
the absence is not excused, permission to make up the recitation 
shall not be granted. 

o. If a student shall have charged against him in any one 
term five unexcused absences, he shall receive written warning 
from the President : if nine unexcused absences, he shall be put 
on probation and his parent or guardian shall be notified ; if 
twelve, he shall be removed from College, or suft'er such other 
punishment as the Faculty shall determine. 

G. Unexcused absences above five shall have affixed to them 
a misconduct mark of 2 for each absence : and absences by 



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concerted action shall be punished by a misconduct mark of not 
less than 5. 

7. Each Instructor shall report to the President on Wed- 
nesday of each week all absences, excused and unexcused. from 
his classes during the previous calendar week. 

fSECT. 6. The arrangement of the studies, the appointment of 
all exercises, and the selection of text-books, in the different 
departments, shall be under the direction of the Faculty, subject 
to the control of the Trustees. 

Sect. 7. At the close of each term, the students shall be 
strictly examined by the Facult}^ in the studies of that term, and 
their attainments noted and recorded ; and during the last two 
weeks of the summer term, they shall be examined in all the 
studies pursued during the year by the class to which they re- 
spectively belong, and their attainments shall be noted. The 
results of this examination shall be exhibited to the Corporation 
at Commencement. No student shall be excused from any' ex- 
amination except for sickness or other reasons deemed sufficient 
by the Faculty. 

Sect. 8. Any student absent from a term or annual examin- 
ation or failing to reach the required standard, shall, unless 
specially excused by the Faculty, make up his deficiencies by the 
end of the fourth week of the following term, or be liable to be 
excluded from his class. For an unexcused absence from a term 
or annual examination there shall be assigned, as a penalty, a mis- 
conduct mark of 6. Private examinations shall not be granted 
unless some special reason make it absolutely necessary. Examin- 
ations may be oral or written at the discretion of the Faculty. 

Sect. 9. Of the Eecord of scholarship. 

1. The scale of marks for recitations and examinations ex- 
tends from to 20 ; 20 indicating a perfect exercise and a failure. 



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2. In addition to the term and annual examinations,Freshmen 
and Sophomores shall be marked upon their dail}^ recitations, and 
Juniors upon frequent test-recitations. Seniors shall be marked 
upon examinations only. The mean of the average recitation mark 
and the mark of the term examination in any study shall be taken 
as the Term Standing in that study. The mean of the term 
standings and the annual examination mark in any study shall 
be taken as the Final Standing in that study. 

*i. The Animal Standing is the average of all the final stand- 
ings of any year. 

4. The General Standing is the average of all annual stand- 
ings. 

5. No student, whose final standing in any study falls below 
10. shall be considered a candidate for a degree, until on re-exam 
ination he attain a standing of at least 10. 

(J. A recitation or an examination, lost by absence, and not 
made up, shall be marked 0. 

Sect. 10. Of the Department of Khetoric and English 
Literature. 

1. An absen(;e from any weekly Rhetorical Exercise shall 
be equivalent to three absences from ordinary recitations or lee 
tures. 

2. All assigned rhetorical exercises shall be due until ful 
filled, and the mark of any performance not presented when due 
shall be diminished by 5 for each week or fraction of a week of 
arrears — except in cases specially excused. 

8. In making up the averages in this department, a chapel 
exercise shall be equivalent to three, and a public exercise to five 
prdinary rhetorical exercises. 



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CHAPTER III. 

or HOURS OF STUDY, RELIGIOUS EXERCISES, GENERAL DEPORTMENT. ETC 

Section 1. Study hours shall be from 8 o'clock, A. M. until 
12 o'clock during the fall and spring terms, and from 8 1-2 until 12 
o'clock during the winter term ; from 2 until 6 P. M. : and from 
7 1-2 until 9 12. P. M. Each Wednesday afternoon after Chapel 
Exercises and the afternoon and evening of each Saturday are 
excepted from the above rule. 

Sect. 2. There shall be public prayer in the Chapel every 
week-day morning at such hour as the Faculty shall direct, pre- 
ceded by the reading of a portion of Scripture, and other devo- 
tional exercises at their discretion, which service it shall be the 
duty of the Faculty and students regularly to attend. 

Sect. 8. Every student shall attend public worship on the 
Lord's day. During that day nothing shall be done which would 
disturb the quiet, or interfere with the religious observances of 
the da}'. All days devoted to religious purposes by the Govern- 
ment of the laud shall be observed in such manner as may be 
prescribed by the Faculty-. 

Sect. 4. In order to prevent all improper interruptions of 
study and interferences with college duties, the students are ex- 
pected not to be unnecessarily absent from their rooms in study 
hours. While students may do nothing at any time inconsistent with 
the order and (piiet proper for an institution of learning, they 
are especially enjoined to abstain at all times from loud and 
disorderly noises on the College premises and to preserve quiet 
in their rooms. No instrument of music shall be played on in 
hours of study, or after ten o'clock at night. 



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Sect. 5. The using or keeping for use of a horn or other in- 
strument intended for disorderly noise will be regarded as a se- 
rious offence, and such an offence on the part of a student room- 
ing in the College building will subject him to the forfeiture of 
his room. 

Shouting from or near College windows, in the halls, in the 
walks or streets : entering any room or closet or passage-way 
which is locked or barred : smoking in any of the public rooms or 
halls : kicking foot-ball or batting except upon the prescribed 
grounds : the ringing of the bell by any one except the bellman 
or some one authorized to act in his place : conversation during 
religious exercises, and refractory or disrespectful behavior, are 
forbidden, and will be regarded as misdemeanors, and shall render 
the offender liable to discipline. 

All immoralities, disorders, neglects, or misbehavior of which 
students may be guilty, though not herein expressly mentioned, 
shall be punished according to the nature and degree of the of- 
fence. 

In all cases of discipline the Faculty Avill deal with students 
as individuals, and not as they may be associated in classes or 
companies. Concert of action in an}^ offence will be regarded as 
an aggravation rather than a mitigation of the offence. 

Sect. 6. All offences against order and quiet will be re- 
garded as more serious if they are committed in the night, or 
" clandestinely or with intended secrecy.'' 

Sect. 7. No meeting of students shall be held at a time 
when such students are due at any College exercise, and no meet- 
ing shall be called at any public room without leave granted to 
occupy the room for that purpose. 

Sect. 8. No publication shall be issued by students without 
leave from the Faculty, and the names of the editors of any 
authorized publication shall be furnished to the Faculty, and such 



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editors shall be held responsible for the character of the publica- 
tion. Mock programmes, or other publications containing offen- 
sive allusions, are strictly prohibited, and any students who may be 
directly or indirectly concerned in preparing, printing, or issuing 
them shall be severely punished. 

Sect. 9. All petitions or other communications to the Fa- 
culty must be sent in before noon of Wednesday. 

Sect. 10. No student shall board or reside in any place dis- 
approved of by the Faculty, or frequent billiard saloons or other 
objectionable places of resort. 

Sect. 11. Failures on the part of a student to perform with 
punctuality and propi'iety such exercises as are assigned to him 
according to the regulations of the F iculty, and intentional vio 
lations of the laws of the University, shall subject the offender to 
such penalties as the Faculty may deem suitable. 

Sect. 12. Misdemeanors shall be subject to a misconduct 
mark, to be determined in each case by vote of the Faculty. The 
misconduct mark shall be on a scale from 1 to 20, according to 
the offence. If the aggregate of such misconduct marks against 
any student shall amount to 12 during any term, or if 20 such 
marks shall accumulate in one college year against any student, 
he shall be placed '' under censure." A permanent and separate 
Record shall he kept by the Secretary of the Faculty of all mis- 
conduct marks and of the offences for which they were adjudged. 

Sect. 13. For any grave violation of College laws, or any 
offence against propriety or morality, a student may by vote of 
the Faculty be put " under censure {' or if the offence be very se 
rious, or be committed while the student is already under censure, 
he may be put ''under severe censure," and such censure and the 
reasons therefor shall be immediately reported to his parent or 
guardian ; and in all cases the censure shall res-t upon the stu- 



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dent until removed by vote of the Faculty. If at the end of a 
term a student shall remain under censure, his term report shall 
indicate the fact. Before censure is passed upon a student, he 
shall have opportunity, and may be required, to present a writ- 
ten statement respecting the oftence in question, or to make such 
oral explanation or defence as he may desire. 

Any student incurrino- more than one " severe censure"* shall 
be regarded as on special probation, and shall not be considered a 
candidate for a degree until the censure shall have been removed. 

Sect. 14. Every student shall give, when asked, a j^rompt 
and unreserved account of his connection witli any proceeding 
which may be under investigation. 

Sect. 15. All grievances of either individuals or classes, 
shall, on proper statement to the Faculty signed by the parties 
aggrieved, receive prompt attention, and. if they prove well 
founded, shall be immediately redressed. 

Sect. 1G. At the close of each term, a report shall he sent to 
the parent or guardian of every student, containing the results of 
all those records which go to designate his conduct and attain- 
ments : and also the University bills that remain charged to his 
account. 

CHAPTER IV. 

OF STUDENTS AS UNDER CIVIL LAW. 

In all matters relating to good order and quietness : to the 
reatment of property pubHc or private : and in general to 
the rights and obligations of citizens in a community, the students 
will be regarded and treated as amenable to the laws of the land 
and to the pohce regulations of the city in all respects like other 
citizens : and in case of any violations of such laws or regulations 



the Faculty will not shield students from the ordinary processes 
of justice, but will seek rather to put the Institution under the 
protection, and to secure for students the wholesome educating 
influence, of public law. 

Extracts from the Revised Statutes of Vermont. 

Sect. 4133. A person who in the night time breaks and en- 
ters a dwelling house, College, Academy, School- 
house, with intent to commit 

robbery, larceny, or other felony, shall be imprisoned in the State 
prison not more than fifteen years or lined not more than one 
thousand dollars. 

Sect. 4134. If either of the acts mentioned in the preceding 
section is perpetrated with such intent in the day time, the per- 
son so ofitending shall be imprisoned in the State prison not more 
thanten years or fined not more than one thousand dollars. 

Sect. 4199. A person wdio wilfully and maliciously breaks 
a door or window of, or otherwise injures, a dwelling house or 
other building, whether occupied or not, or a sign thereon, or a 
fence or wall, not being his owm property, or disfigures the same 
with paint or otherwise, or defaces the same by writing, printing 
or painting thereon any obscene word, figures or devices, shall be 
fined not more than twenty dollars, or imprisoned not more than 
ninety days, or both ; and the offender shall also be liable to pay 
the owner of the property injured the damages occasioned. 

Sect. 4203. A person who wilfully injures or destroys a 
shade or ornamental tree standing in a public highway, park or 
common burial ground or cemetery, shall be fined not more than 
fifty nor less than five dollars. 

Sect. 4210. A person who wilfully commits a trespass by 
entering upon the garden, orchard or other land of another, on 
which fruit trees are grown, without permission of the owner 
thereof, and with intent to cut, take, carry away, destroy or in- 
jure the trees, fruit, or vegetables there, shall be imprisoned not 
more than thirty days, or fined not more than twenty dollars ; 
and if the offence is committed on Sunda}^, or in disguise, or se- 
cretty, between sunset and sunrise, the imprisonment shall not 
be less than five days, nor the fine less than five dollars. 



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Sect. 4216. A loerson who wilfull}- and maliciously writes 
upon or injures a book, plate, picture, engraving or statue belong- 
ing to a law, town, or public library, shall be lined not less than 
five dollars and not more than one thousand dollars. 

Sect. 4219. A person who wilfully and maliciously cuts down 

or otherwise injures grass, hay, corn or other grain, 

the property of another, or cuts down, carries away, or destroys a 

fence, bars, gates, or rails, or injures 

or destroys any other goods or chattels the projDerty of another 
which are the subject of larceny, shall, if the offence is committed 
openly and without intended secrecy, be fined not more than two 
hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than two months ; but if 
the offence is committed clandestinely or with intended secrecy, 
he shall be punished by imprisonment in the State prison not ex- 
ceeding three years or by a fine not exceeding three hundred dol- 
lars, or both. 

Sect. 4228. A person who disturbs or breaks the public 

peace by tumultuous and offensive carriage shall 

be imprisoned not more than one year or fined not more than five 
hundred dollars. 

Sect. 4229. A person who by a disorderly .or unlawful act 
disturbs a town, societ}*, or chstrict meeting, or a school, or any 

meeting lawfully assembled. shall be fined not 

more than twenty dollars. 

Sect. 4234. A person who between sunset and sunrise dis- 
turbs and breaks the public peace by firing guns, blowing horns, 
or by other unnecessary and offensive noise, shall be fined not 
more than fifty dollars. 

FROM THE ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF BURLINGTON. 

Sect. 14. No person shall injure, deface, or destroy any lamp- 
post or lamp thereon, heretofore erected or which shall be erected 
in the city, or any building, fence, post or other thing, set, erected, 
or made for use, or ornament of the city, nor shall any person 
move, mutilate, or destroy, without the consent of the owners 
thereof,any sign, sign post, awning-post, or other thing, the private 
property of individuals, lawfully set, erected or placed in or uj^oii 
any street, highway or public place in the city. 

Sect. 15. No person shall cut down or remove, mutilate or 
ptherwise injure qv destroy anj fruit, shade or other ornamental 



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tree now growing or wliicli hereafter msij be growing in anj- pub- 
lic street, lane, alley, common, or other public ground in the city, 
without the permission of the Mayor and Aldermen. 

Sect. 1G. No person shall behave himself in a rude or dis- 
orderly manner, or use any indecent, profane or insulting lan- 
guage in any street, lane, or alley, or public place in the city or 
near any dwelling-house or building therein No per- 
son shall make any indecent figures, nor w^rite any indecent or 
obscene words upon any fence, building, or any other public place 
within the city, nor shall any person by any noise, gesture, or 
other means, wantonly and designedly frighten any horse or 
horses in any street or public place in the city. No person shall 
throw any stones or other missiles in or upon any public street, 
common, or other ground belonging to the city. 



CHAPTER V. 

OF MILITARY INSTRUCTION. 

Section 1. All male students, not physically disqualified, 
shall take part in military drill or instruction two hours eadi 
week ; each drill or exercise to last one hour and to take place 
at such time as the Faculty shall appoint. During the winter 
season and in stormy weather, such instruction will be substi- 
tuted for drills as the Instructor may prescribe, and during the 
winter term of the Sophomore year, recitations in Infantry Tac- 
tics will be required. 

Sect. 2. Students shall keep themselves supplied with the 
prescribed uniform to be worn during drills and with the neces- 
sary text books for instruction. 

Sect. 3. For instruction hi Infantry Tactics and Military 
Discipline, the students will be organized into a battalion of two 
or more companies, under the officer of the U. S. Army on duty 
at the University as Commandant. Appointments will be made 
by the President of the University from a list submitted by the 



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Commandant of the Battalion and will be published in the Annual 
Catalogue. Selections will be based upon soldier like qualities and 
attainments, and, in general, the officers will be taken from the Se- 
nior class, the sergeants from the Junior class, and the corporals 
from the Sophomore class. 

Sect. 4. Kecord will be kept of each student's proficiency 
at all drills and military exercises, and a drill or exercise lost bv 
unexcused absence will be marked 0, the same as a recitation in 
other subjects. 

Sect. 4. The salute prescribed in Tactics for officers shall be 
exchanged by students and members of the Facult}' upon meet- 
ing, the student offering the first salute. 

CHAPTER VI. 

OF ROOMS, BUILDINGS AXD GROUNDS. 

Section 1. The prices of rent for rooms in the University 
buildings shall be determined, according to their location, by 
the Faculty. 

Sect. 2. The choice of rooms shall be assigned by lot, at the 
end of each Academic Year, to applicants approved by the Facul- 
ty, the applicants from the Junior Class having the first choice, 
the Soj^homores the second, the Freshmen the thu'd. In case ap- 
plicants proposing to room together are of different classes, the 
order of choice and the tenure of the room shall be that of the 
man from the highest class. But in such case the first choice 
shall be given to applicants who belong exclusivelj^ to a higher 
class rather than to a less number of the same class with one or 
more of a lower class. 

The application shall be made througli a form furnished by 
the Faculty, and shall state that the applicants desire the room 



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foi their own occupanc}^ and that they agree to occupy and pay 
for the room which may be assigned to them until the end of the 
next Academic Year, and to conform to the regulations made by 
the Faculty respecting the care and use of rooms. Students who 
have once obtained a room by lot may be allowed by the Faculty 
to retain their room, from year to year, through their College 
Course. 

Sect. 8. Each suite of rooms shall be let to not fewer than 
two persons, and may b}^ sj^ecial permission of the Faculty be oc- 
cupied by a greater number, not exceeding four. In every case 
each occupant shall be responsible for his pro rata share of the 
rent and damages. The rental covers care of rooms by persons 
employed and paid by the University. 

Sect. 4. Rooms shall be held by students subject to the 
condition that all rules, for securing quiet, order, and cleanliness 
in the rooms, halls, and premises, are strictly observed. Any vio- 
lation of these rules, either by themselves or visitors, shall subject 
the occupants to forfeiture of their right to the room. Self-board- 
ing in any of the rooms ; the keeping of a dog or cat : cutting or 
splitting wood in the rooms or halls : shouting, or throwing any- 
thing, from the window^s ; pasting pictures on or otherwise injur- 
ing the walls ; loud and boisterous noises in the rooms or halls : 
playing on musical instruments during recitation hours or after 
ten o'clock at night ; gatherings of students in the rooms after 
the same hour ; the keeping of fire-arms or gunpowder except 
under direction of the Military Instructor : bringing into tlie 
rooms any fermented or distilled liquors : are prohibited. 

Sect. 5. All rooms shall be open at a si^ecified hour, 
weekly, for inspection by an Officer of the College, whose duty 
it shall be to note all violations of the rules, to bring them to the 
attention of the occupants, and to report them to the Faculty. 



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Sect. G. All damages to rooms beyond ordinary wear shall 
be repaii-ed at the expense of the occupants, and damages to the 
halls at the expense of all occapying rooms on that floor. For 
wanton damages the aggressors, when known, shall be lined double 
the exj^ense of reiDairs. 

Sect. 7. At the close of every term and whenever a student 
is to be absent for more than one week, each occupant of a room 
shall deposit his key with the Janitor. Failure to comply with 
this requisition shall subject the student to a line of fifty cents. 
Duplicate keys of all the rooms shall be in the keeping of the col- 
lege authorities, and no locks shaU be put upon the doors by stu- 
dents except by express pennissiou. 

Sect. 8. Students shall not be entitled to the occupancy of 
the rooms during vacation, except by special pennission of the 
Faculty. 

Sect. 9. No student shall use gun powder or fire-ai'ms in 
the buildings, or on the adjacent grounds of the University, except 
under ilirection of the MihtaiT Instructor. No smoking shall be 
allowed in any of the halls or public rooms of the University : 
nor shall any intoxicating drinks be brought upon the University 
premises. 

Sect. 10. Any student who shall with mischievous intent set 
fire to the grass or to any combustible material within the College 
premises, or on the park or adjacent streets, shall be severely 
punished by the Faculty, or may at theii- discretion be handed 
over to the civil authorities for punishment. 

Sect. 11. All damages to the property of the JTniversity 
shall be repaired at the expense of the perpetrators, if known : 
otherwise at the expense of all the students, except such damages 
as are indicated in Section 6 above. For wanton damages the 
aggi'essors shall be fined double the expense of repair's. Ofl'ences 



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against cleanliness shall be reckoned as damages. Offenders may, 
besides making good the damages, be otherwise punished accord 
ing to the degree of the offence. 

Sect. 12. No person who is not a member of the University 
shall be permitted to occupy a room in the College building with- 
out special leave from the Faculty. 

Sect. 13. The Curator of buildings and the Inspector shall 
visit the buildings throughout at least once in each term, to take 
note of all violations of these rules and shall make assessment of 
damages accordingly. 

Sect. 14. The President shall employ suitable persons to 
make the ordinary repairs, to ring the bell, and perform other 
necessary services. The incidental expenses shall be charged 
upon all the students. 

CHAPTEK VII. 

or THE LIBRAKY AND APPARATUS. 

Section 1. The books belonging to the University shall be 
under the care of a Librarian appointed by the Corporation. 

Sect. 2. The Library shall be open to the Faculty, Corpora- 
tion, Secretary, Treasurer, and Students of the University, under 
such regulations as may be adopted by the Corporation and 
Faculty, and also, by special license from the President, to any 
person who wishes to use it for consultation. 

Sect. 11 The Librarian shall keep a fair record of all books 
loaned, in which the title of each book shall be noted. No person 
except a member of the Faculty may enter the library, or take 
down and replace books in it, but in the presence and with the 
leave of the Librarian or his assistant. 



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Sect. 4. No volume, j^amphlet, map, or print may be remov- 
ed from the Library before it has been properly charged to the 
person taking it. 

Sect. 5. Students are permitted to take books from the 
Library at least twice in each week of term time, except the last, 
and oftener if the Faculty so direct. All books are to be returned 
to the Library at least three days before each vacation, except 
such as are out by special licence. 

Sect. 6. No undergraduate shall be permited to have out 
at the same time more than three volumes, or to retain them more 
than two weeks, except by special license from the Librarian. 
Violation of this rule shall be punished by a fine of not less than 
twenty cents a week for each volume so detained, and forfeiture 
of the use of the Library till the book or books shall be returned 
and the fines paid. 

Sect. 7. In the case of books loaned to persons not imme- 
diately connected with the University, the President or Librarian 
may fix the time within which they shall be returnable. If the 
volumes are not returned at the time set, the same tine may be 
imposed as is provided in Sect. 6 for undergraduates. 

Sect. S. Every person borrowing books from the Librai'y 
shall be responsible for them, and for all damages done to 
them, while remaining charged to his name. Damages of any 
kind, and tines not exceeding one dollar, shall be assessed by 
the Librarian ; above one dollar and not exceeding five dollars, by 
the Librarian and President, and above five dollars by the 
Faculty. 

Sect. 9. Books of reference and works of special value (a 
list of which shall be furnished by the Faculty to the Librarian), 
shall not be taken out except by special license from the Presi- 
dent, and the Librai'ian may withhold any volume at his discretio«. 



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Sect. 10. All money arising from the use of the Library, 
and from fines according to the laws of the same, shall be applied 
to the use of the Library, and the President is authorized to draw 
the same from the treasury annually, and apply it in repairing the 
books, according to the judgment of himself and the Librarian, or 
in purchasing such new books as the Faculty shall think best. 

Sect. 11. All books belonging to the Library shall be 
labelled and enrolled in a suitable catalogue containing the 
title, size, number of volumes, edition, and the year in which each 
was printed. Catalogues may be printed at the discretion of the 
President and Librarian. 

Sect. 12. The philosophical apparatus shall be under the 
care of the Professor of Natural Philosophy, the chemical appara- 
tus under the charge of the Professor of Chemistry, and the 
collections in Natural History under the charge of the Curator, 
who shall keep respectively complete lists of the same. No 
article shall be allowed to go out from the place in which it is 
properly kept without a fair entry of the article, the date of its 
being taken, and the person who has it in charge or is accountable 
for it. All articles shall be returned to their proper places before 
the end of each term. During the week next preceding the an- 
nual Commencement, the Library and Apparatus shall be cai'efully 
examined, and, if necessary, the books and articles shall be cleansed 
under the direction of those who have the charge of them ; and 
the President, and some member of the Corporation designated 
for the purpose, shall visit and inspect the same, and report their 
condition to the Corporation. A like visitation and report shall 
be made previously to the transfer of the charge of the Library 
or Apparatus from one person to another. 

Sect. 13. An exact account shall be kept of all donations 
to the Library and Collections, for a perpetual memorial of grati- 
tude and respect. 



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CHAPTER YIII. 



OF TERM BILLS. 



Section 1. Every student upon joiiiiug the University shall 
pay to the Treasurer a sum deemed by the latter equivalent to the 
probable amount of the term bill for one term, which shall be 
passed to the credit of the student, and if he shall enter an ad- 
vanced class he shall also pay an amount equal to one-half of the 
back tuition, unless he enter from another college. His parent 
or guardian, or the student himself, shall, before the end of his 
second term, give bonds to the Corporation with surety or sureties 
satisfactory to the Treasurer, in the sum of three hundi'ed dollars, 
to secure the payment of the several term bills, as assessed ac- 
cording to the laws and customs of this University, unless he shall 
have paid in advance to the Treasurer the probable amount of his 
next term bill, and so on from term to term. 

Sect. 2. Every student shall be charged at the Treasui-y 
in each term bill for tuition and other expenses as specified in 
the Annual Catalogue. And if absent, a member of the University 
shall be charged with the usual dues, as if present. 

Sect. 3. Tei-m bills ai*e due at the end of each term, and 
interest shall be charged thereon till paid. 

Sect. 4. If a student be dismissed before the middle of the 
term^ he shall be charged for one-half of the same, and if after 
the middle, for the whole. 

Sect. 5. If any student absent himself fi'om the University 
for one whole term, he shall be deemed thereby to have relin- 
quished his connection with the University, and no charges shall 
be made against him after that term, at the close of which the 
President shall notify the Treasurer, who shall forthwith take 



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proper measures to collect all bills due from such absent person, 
— Frovided that if a student, so absent, or his Parent or Guar- 
dian, expressly request that he ma}^ be still considered a membej*, 
the Faculty may declare him still to be one, if they judge that the 
circumstances of the case render it proper. 



CHAPTER IX. 

OF DISMISSIONS, ACADEMICAL DEGREES, EXERCISES AT 
COMMENCEMENT, ETC. 

Section 1. Any student in good standing, who is not a 
minor, or whose Parent or Guardian requests it, may have a cer- 
tificate of dismission from the University under the signature of 
the President, if all dues to the XJniversitj^ are satisfied ; but the 
certificate ma}^ not contain any statement respecting his scholar- 
ship, unless he have been examined by the Faculty for that pur- 
pose. 

Sect. 2. No student shall receive a degree, unless he have 
been a student in the University four years, or have been regularly 
admitted to an advanced standing and have been a member at 
least one year, and have sustained, to the approbation of the 
Faculty, a full and impartial examination in the course of study 
prescribed by the Faculty for such degree. 

Sect. 3. Undergraduates who are candidates for any degree 
shall present to the Professor of Rhetoric, at least six weeks 
before Commencement, a fairly written exercise of a charac- 
ter suitable to be pronounced in public. From these exercises the 
Faculty shall select such as they deem most suitable for public 
exhibition, to be pronounced on Commencement day, as they 
shall prescribe. 



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Sect. 4. No person shall receive a degree except bv vote of 
the Corporation, nor till all dues to the University are paid, nor if 
he neglect to comply with the rules of this chapter. 

Sect. 5. Every Bachelor of Arts of good moral character 
who, three years after receiving his first degree, shall satisfy 
the Corporation that he has made progress in literai'y or scien- 
tific studies, may receive the degree of Master of Ai'ts. 

Sect. 6. Every candidate for any degree shall, previously to 
his receiving the same, pay to the Treasurer five dollars, — Provided 
that honorary degrees conferred by the Corporation shall be 
free of every charge. 

Sect. 7. Every person who receives any degree may have 
a diploma on parchment signed by the President and Secretary 
and sealed with the seal of the University. 

Sect. 8. Students who have completed then- proposed 
course of study, but do not receive a degree, may have a cer- 
tificate signed by the President and Secretary of the Faculty, 
showing their attainments in any studies pursued by them in the 
University. 

CHAPTER X. 

SCHOLARSHIPS. 

A limited number of Scholarships are at the disposal of the 
Faculty under the following conditions : 

1. The beneficiary must furnish satisfactory evidence that 
he needs and deserves assistance : must obtain an average term- 
Btanding of not less than 70 i^er cent ; and must not indulge in 
the use of tobacco, or in other exj^ensive habits. 

2. If a student who has had the benefit of a scholarship shall 
)3e excluded, or shall unnecessaiily abandon his college studies be- 



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fore graduation, or shall leave this college to join another, he shall 
thereby become chargeable with the full back tuition. 

3. The Scholarships are to be appropriated from term to 
term, and are available only in case the balance of the College bill 
is promptly paid to the satisfaction of the Treasurer. 

4. Any student who is under censure in any term shall for 
feit his claim to a scholarship for that term. 

5. No scholarship will be granted for a term during which 
the student is absent from College. 

CHAPTER XI. 

Suggestions. 

1. Every student is earnestly advised to connect himself 
with some one of the religious societies of the place, to attend 
worship regularly with that society, and to become a member of a 
Bible Class. 

2. As physical exercise is essential to the health of both 
body and mind, students are enjoined to spend as much as possi- 
ble of their leisure time in exhilarating exercises in the open air. 

3. The practice of studying in company and of using transla- 
tions and keys in preparing lessons is to be avoided as inducing 
mental dependence, and as inevitably resulting in feeble scholar- 
ship. 

4. One of the most valuable benefits of College membership 
is the opportunity it affords for reading and for a variety of lite- 
rary work not required in the Course. Students are advised, 
therefore, to make a diligent use of the Library and Reading-room, 
and to avail themselves of all opportunities for debate and other 



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literary discipline — always giving, however, the prior claim to 
their regulai' studies. 

5. Occasional absences from College exercises ai'e so serious 
breaks upon the continuity and completeness of study, and after 
a time affect scliolarship so disastrously, that only the most pres- 
sing necessity should be allowed to call a student away from his 
work during term-time. 

6. It is eai'nestly enjoined upon all students that they seek to 
cultivate confidential relations with the members of the Faculty ; 
that they assume the friendliness of their Instructors : that they 
seek counsel from them in time of need : and that they co operate 
with them in maintaining a high standard of scholarship and mo- 
rality in the University. 

7. The conduct of the students towards all men is to be 
regulated by those plain rules of poHteness, honor, and religion, 
which are binding on every free and virtuous community ; and as 
upright men and good citizens they should use all lawful exer- 
tions to prevent and expose all violations of the laws of God and 
of the country, and whatever is at variance with the objects of 
the University. 



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